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    Shaping India’s Future: Start-ups, Sustainability & Strategic Transformation
    (Book Rivers, 2026) Abdul Tayyab Khan, Orooj Siddiqui
    Shaping India’s Future: Start-ups, Sustainability & Strategic Transformation explores the role of innovation, entrepreneurship, sustainability, and digital transformation in shaping India’s evolving socio-economic landscape. The book examines key themes such as Artificial Intelligence, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), influencer marketing, augmented reality, healthcare innovation, and public-private partnerships through conceptual discussions, case studies, and contemporary examples. It highlights how technology-driven strategies and sustainable business practices contribute to inclusive growth, governance efficiency, and strategic development in India. The volume serves as a valuable resource for researchers, students, policymakers, and business professionals interested in innovation and sustainable transformation.
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    Socially Responsible Educational Research in Pursuit of the Sustainable Development Goals: Bridging Scholarship, Society, and Global Commitments
    (Book Rivers Publications, Lucknow, India, 2026) Bushra Sumaiya
    Educational research today is situated within a world marked by rapid technological change, persistent inequalities, and an escalating urgency to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Against this backdrop, socially responsible research emerges as both a moral imperative and a scholarly necessity. This chapter examines how responsibility is conceptualised, practiced, and institutionalised within educational research, drawing on diverse theoretical, methodological, and policy-oriented perspectives. It argues that socially responsible research is anchored in values of equity, reflexivity, participation, and responsiveness to societal needs. Foundational scholarship highlights how responsibility extends beyond technical rigour, requiring researchers to remain critically aware of their positionalities, ethical commitments, and the broader socio-cultural contexts that shape knowledge production. Building on this foundation, the chapter explores the growing alignment between educational research and the SDGs, particularly through Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), institutional policies, and curriculum reforms. These developments illustrate how higher education systems are increasingly expected to foster sustainability, global citizenship, and community engagement. The chapter also examines how leadership education, citizenship frameworks, and teacher professional development contribute to cultivating socially responsible mindsets among learners and educators. Through such interconnected efforts, educational systems become active contributors to sustainable futures. The role of universities is further highlighted as they evolve into socially responsible institutions capable of integrating sustainability into research, governance, and community partnerships. Methodological innovations and technological advancements—ranging from design-based research to artificial intelligence and ICT for development—offer powerful tools for advancing socially responsive scholarship. Taken together, these perspectives demonstrate that socially responsible research is not a peripheral aspiration but a transformative framework that can shape the future of educational inquiry. The chapter concludes by outlining future possibilities for strengthening the integration of responsibility and sustainability within research ecosystems, thereby reinforcing education’s role in global development.
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    Need for Global Partnership in achieving the sustainable development goals
    (Department of Biotechnology, Integral University, 2025) Syed Uzair Ali, Shariq Shabbir, Zuhaib ullah Khan, Rizwana Atiq
    The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), that was selected for one United Nations (UN) in 2015, are a welcome operation for the global society to curb want, insulate the asteroid, and guarantee affluence for all by 2030. These 17 pertain tenable growth goals cover a expansive range of issues in the way that surroundings change, prejudice, clean strength, value instruction, grammatical rules applying to nouns that connote sex or animateness similarity, and sustainable downtowns, with possible choice. While the SDGs support a guide to future goals for conceiving a more impartial, friendly, and tenable globe, their realisation requires a related, multi-spatial approach. The complicatedness and purview of the SDGs are huge, and no alone country or organisation can realise ruling class unique. Instead, the successful exercise of these aims rests on forceful, all-embracing all-encompassing participations. Governments, trades, civic society organisations, worldwide organisations, and things must agree to address the challenges that prevent progress. This paper investigate the need of all-encompassing alliances in achieving the SDGs, testing the duties of differing collaborators and in what way or manner cooperative works can help overcome obstructions to tenable development.
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    Gender Equality Women’s Empowerment in Sustainability Development Goals(SDGs)
    (Bharti Publication, 2025) Vandana Mishra, Pallavi
    Gender equality and women’s empowerment are central to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly SDG 5, which aims to eliminate gender-based discrimination and promote equal opportunities. Empowering women enhances economic growth, reduces poverty, and fosters inclusive societies. Gender equality intersects with other SDGs, including education (SDG 4), health (SDG 3), and climate action (SDG 13), highlighting its integral role in sustainable development. Despite progress, structural barriers and social norms continue to impede full gender parity. This abstract underscores the necessity of policy reforms, inclusive governance, and targeted interventions to advance women’s rights and ensure equitable participation in all areas of development.